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...including joint training and involvement of Russia in peacekeeping activities. While Christopher might be trying to compensate a Russia nervous about NATO's continuing campaign to bring Eastern European nations into the alliance, he may not be offering enough balm. "Russia is very suspicious of NATO," says TIME's Bruce Nelan. "It believes correctly that NATO was created as a military alliance to oppose it. That is why the nervous countries in Eastern Europe want to join. The NATO expansion might possibly work with less opposition from Russia if the U.S. and its allies were to bring Russia into close...
...weekly commute from his rural Connecticut home, conducting business out of a suite at the elegant Jefferson Hotel--Morris has an insider's ability to push his agenda. His allies are the First Lady, Vice President Al Gore, press secretary Mike McCurry, communications director Don Baer, policy adviser Bruce Reed and presidential counselor Bill Curry. But his closest confidant is the President himself, for whom he prepares exclusive briefing books that sometimes critique Clinton's other advisers. Some aides say Morris sees the Executive Branch as his playground, and anyone who disagrees with him as an obstructionist, a fool...
...York, on the other hand, with its parking-bureau scandals and clockwork rediscovery of police corruption, is merely pathetic. The Spirit of my Chicago is brash, and the hell with it. Lenny Bruce played the city in the '50s and commented, "You know, Bobby Franks was actually a snotty...
Chicago ran Bruce out of town, but I claim him nonetheless as having uttered one of the hippest of asides while in our boundaries. And speaking yet again of the Leopold-Loeb Trial (that first of many Trials of the Century, Chicago, 1924), I cite Chicago as Capital of the Brash, for the immortal Best Lead Ever Written by a Journalist. Boy geniuses Leopold and Loeb killed Bobby Franks, and they went to prison. Loeb was filleted in what was presumed to have been a failed homoerotic approach, and Ed Lahey, in the Daily News, led off, "Richard Loeb, despite...
...things the federal government has always seen (and budgeted) as its business, and everytime they use the term, you can hear the federal budget shrinking. Arriving in Chicago from the fireline near Fresno, California, where he spent a week helping fight the flames in the Sierra foothills, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt reflected on how a second Clinton Administration will approach the art of thinking small. On healthcare, the Administration takes credit for triggering the "reform" that was carried out by large profit-making managed care firms that bought up doctors and hospitals across the country and cut prices. On environmental...